The bombing was the result of a Hamas rocket strike which injured six Israelis, which itself was an attack in return for the deaths of two Hamas members at the hands of the Israeli military.

And finally, a bus carrying a group of children was bombed, resulting in 43 deaths.

Most of the children were under the age of ten.

This particular bombing comes as new evidence from the Associated Press (AP) suggests that the United States government has been working with al-Qaeda to suppress the Houthi rebels in Yemen even as it claims to be fighting them.

If it weren’t clear from the sheer amount of military force that we have funneled into these wars over the last two decades, the number of civilian deaths should certainly illuminate the fact that the policy of U.S. interventionism when it comes to the Middle East is a failed policy.

We have achieved nothing by dropping bombs except to create more recruits and to sow even more distrust and hatred for the United States and its people around the world while pushing the nations we are attacking closer and closer to collapse.